The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 143)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 143)

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The main argument of the book was to prove that nationalism
was not the product of the eighteenth and nineteenth |
centuries bourgeois states in Europe, but rather the logical
result of a long process of development in all human history.
The authors traced the development of nations from the infant
stages of the family, the tribe, and the city state. Their
purpose was to show that nationalism was not merely a phase
in the history of human development, but rather the motivating
force behind history. They claimed that there was no other
force by which human history could be explained. This claim
was supported by arguments aimed at rejecting other explana-
tions. They emphasized that human societies neither develop
along the lines of class:‘divisions, nor according to
religious differences. There are no workers' societies and
capitalists' societies. Likewise, there are no Muslim or
Christian societies. Societies had developed along the
lines of nations, and the motivating force was nationalism.
It is obvious that the whole argument was based upon the
assumption that nationalism had something to do with human
nature.
The above theory runs into a real difficulty when
it attempts to spell out its humanist virtues. The authors
explained this by emphasizing that a true nationalist
believes in the right of all nations to develop along the
lines of their respective nationalisms. An Arab nationalist
respects all other nationalisms, and this is so by definition.
Why did history not demonstrate such humanist tendencies by

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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